Website zoebuckman.com Children Cleo Buckman Schwimmer | Nationality English Movies Simon Magus | |
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Occupation Artist, photographer, producer Relatives Geraldine James, Alec Guinness Parents Nick Blatchley, Jennie Buckman Similar David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc, Lisa Kudrow, Matthew Perry, Courteney Cox Profiles | ||
Zoë Buckman (born 13 September 1985) is a British artist, photographer, and producer.
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Early life
Buckman was born in East Hackney, London, to Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts head of acting (from 1986 to 2007), television writer, and playwright Jennie Buckman and Nick Blatchley. Her brother is Peter Buckman, an English writer and literary agent.
Notable relatives of Buckman include actress Geraldine James and the late actor Sir Alec Guinness.
Artwork
Buckman is known for her Present Life and Every Curve artwork series. She is a multi-media artist working in photography, embroidery, sculpture, neon and installation.
Present Life
Present Life examines the temporary nature and beauty of life from the focal-point of the exhibit, Buckman's plastinated placenta. After the birth of Buckman's daughter, Cleo, Buckman was informed that her placenta had deteriorated and could have caused the premature death of her child had she not been born. Buckman decided to preserve her placenta through plastination and used the experience to inform her Present Life art series. In the series, Buckman's plastinated placenta is shown encased in marble.
Present Life was featured in several publications such as Viper Magazine, W, BlackBook, and ArtNet News.
Present Life was shown in its entirety at Garis & Hahn Gallery in New York and was called a "must see" by Brianna Cohen of Art Markit.
Every Curve
Every Curve brings together Buckman's love of 1990s rap lyrics from The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur and her Feminist ideology through an installation of embroidery on vintage women's lingerie. Buckman hand embroiders rap lyrics onto vintage garments to explore the conflict between feminism and hip-hop.
The art series explores the dialogue between the misogynistic lyrics within rap and the uplifting, pro-choice, Feminist content found within the text. Every Curve "illustrates the oppositional perceptions of woman as sexual object, woman as love, and woman as creator; perceptions which, with recourse to history, remain unchanged", stated art critic Hannah-Rosanne Poulton of A Taste for Art.
Every Curve was featured in several publications such as Cultured Magazine, The Huffington Post, W Magazine, and LA Times.
Mostly It's Just Uncomfortable
Mostly It’s Just Uncomfortable is Buckman’s newest series in response to the attack on Planned Parenthood in the United States and the consequent lack of access to free sexual health care for underserved women and the attempted removal of a woman’s right to make choices concerning her own body. The body of work includes gynecological and boxing imagery and objects.
Two of the neon works from the series, Champion and Champ have been featured in the inaugural exhibition of For Freedoms, an artist-run Super PAC, at Jack Shainman Gallery and Rock The Vote's Truth to Power exhibition at the 2016 Democratic National Convention (DNC) in Philadelphia.
Works from Mostly It's Just Uncomfortable have been featured in several publications and media outlets such as Time Out, Fox 5 News, and The Creators Project.
Personal life
In 2007 Buckman began a relationship with actor and director David Schwimmer, 19 years her senior. In March 2010, Schwimmer announced their engagement, and Buckman married Schwimmer in a small ceremony in June. On 8 May 2011 Buckman and Schwimmer's daughter, Cleo Buckman Schwimmer was born.